100 Sideways Miles Quotes

“Worry and regret are both useless weights that provide no drag. They never did anything to slow down the planet for one goddamned second.”
― Andrew Smith, 100 Sideways Miles

“I thought about words - like words in books - and how just saying them made things real.”
― Andrew Smith, 100 Sideways Miles

“It was so pleasant, chaotic, emotionless, nameless-everything vibrating so beautifully in the universe without words.”
― Andrew Smith, 100 Sideways Miles

“Sometimes books imitate life. And sometimes books imitate lives that imitate books.”
― Andrew Smith, 100 Sideways Miles

“I am not the only one who sometimes thinks I came from the pages of a book my father wrote.

Maybe it’s like that for all boys of a certain —or uncertain— age: We feel as though there are no choices we’d made through all those miles and miles behind us that hadn’t been scripted by our fathers, and that our futures are only a matter of flipping the next page that was written ahead of us.

I am not the only one who’s ever been trapped inside a book.”
― Andrew Smith, 100 Sideways Miles

“I guess I was waiting till after we got to Arizona to say anything."
"That's the dumbest conversational plan I have ever head in my life.”
― Andrew Smith, 100 Sideways Miles